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barkerzd left a comment for Duane Tompkins
"Hello.
Yes, I was able to get some pretty interesting results with my RC truck and Ardupilot. I was using a Tamiya Super Clod Buster, which uses some pretty beefy motors, and a Tamiya 2-motor ESC. The only requirement is that you need quite a bit of…"
Dec 20, 2009
barkerzd posted a discussion
Hello all,I've been having some troubles recently in switching between manual and automatic control on my ArduPilot board. It is currently controlling a crawler-type RC car, as some others have attempted. When I first power on the board (initially…
Apr 6, 2009
barkerzd posted a discussion
Hello,For those of you that have successfully used the ArduPilot in an RC truck or car, have you used the basic ArduPilot 1.0 code and, if so, was it heavily modified from the code used to control airplanes? I'm just getting started on controlling…
Mar 22, 2009
barkerzd replied to GhostRider's discussion Ardupilot in 2ch RC car
"Hello,

Are you all using the ArduPilot 1.0 code to run your RC cars, and, if so, was it heavily modified from the code used to control airplanes? I'm just getting started on controlling my crawler with ArduPilot and I need some suggestions from…"
Mar 22, 2009
barkerzd commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot Assembly Instructions
"Chris,
I tried loading the bootloader from the Arduino IDE, and it seemed to work great! I was then able to upload the ArduPilot code to the board. Thanks so much for your help!
barkerzd"
Mar 2, 2009
barkerzd commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot Assembly Instructions
"Yes, I've followed the steps for reloading the bootloader as described in the "Reloading the Arduino bootloader with AVR Studio" post. The only snag was that I had to set the ISP frequency to 125 kHz while doing this, since leaving it at 2 MHz…"
Feb 28, 2009
barkerzd commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot Assembly Instructions
"Chris,

I'm powering the ArduPilot board from my Tamiya TEU-103 BK ESC, which is connected to ArduPilot OUT 1. The voltage from this is ~6v.

I was getting ~6v between the top two pins (GND and VCC) next to the 6-pin FTDI (circled in red below). It…"
Feb 28, 2009
barkerzd commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot Assembly Instructions
"Chris,

I have tried loading the bootloader using the IDE, but to no avail. I also tried it in AVR Studio, but was having difficulties with erasing the chip, but I thought that decreasing the ISP frequency from 2 MHz might work, and seemed to be…"
Feb 28, 2009
barkerzd commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot Assembly Instructions
"Hello everyone. I am having the same problem as tychoc: I received my two new boards back from SparkFun last week (to clear the CKDIV8 fuse), but now I can't upload sketch files to either of my boards, and when I try, I get the following error…"
Feb 27, 2009